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| Serial number | Industry in which agile manufacturing was implemented | Papers reporting the implementation oriented research in agile manufacturing domain | Candidate product | Research reported in the paper |
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| 1 | Electronic industry | Vinodh et al. [33–45], Deif and ElMaraghy [46], Hooper et al. [47], Khoo and Loi [48], Mondragon et al. [49], Sharifi and Zhang [50], Zandi and Tavana [51] | Several products | Several technologies and models have been applied to achieve agility |
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| 2 | Pump industry | Vinodh et al. [20], Devadasan et al. [22] | Pump products | Research to infuse agility through the integration of CAD and RPT |
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| 3 | Aerospace industry | Gunasekaran et al. [52] | Aircraft components | Developed and used an agility audit questionnaire for assessing the agility level of the company |
| Mondragon et al. [49] | Studied the impact of information systems in achieving agility |
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| | | Sreenivasa et al. [53] | | Developed a 30-criterion agility assessment tool |
| 4 | Air dryer industry | Sreenivasa et al. [54] | Regenerative air dryer | Reported a research on theoretically mapping air dryer capabilities from agile manufacturing perspectives |
| | | Sreenivasa et al. [55] | | Reported a research to enhance the total agility level (TAL) in the company |
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| | | Mondragon et al. [49] | Engine and transmission parts | Studied the impact of information systems in achieving agility |
| 5 | Automotive industry | Frayret et al. [56] | Motor coach | Demonstrated the effectiveness of a method called “NetMan approach” in acquiring agility characteristics in organisations |
| | | Vinodh and Kuttalingam [9] | Sprocket | Investigated the application of CAD and Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) as enablers of agile manufacturing |
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| 6 | Machine tool industry | Wang et al. [57] | — | Proposed a multiagent and distributed ruler based approach to carry out production scheduling in agile manufacturing system |
Cheng et al. [58]
Cheng et al. [59], Pan et al. [60] | Journal bearings
Rolling bearings | Proposed an architecture for implementing agile manufacturing principles by integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) and internet technology |
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| 7 | Chemical industry | Guisinger and Ghorashi [61] | — | Described the increasing application of agile manufacturing practices in the specialty chemical industry |
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| 8 | Casting industry | Yang and Li [62] | — | Researched on evaluating the agility of a company by using the multigrade fuzzy assessment method |
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| 9 | Household products manufacturing industry | Sharifi and Zhang [50] | Domestic cookers | Designed a conceptual model of agility to enhance the agility of the company |
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| 10 | Fabrication industry | Fung et al. [63] | Steel frames | Proposed an infrastructure for exercising adaptive production control in an agile manufacturing environment |
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